Living ~400lbs

Category: HAES

  • New HAES Study

    Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. — Aubrey Eben The new Health At Every Size paper, by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor, is titled Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift.   From the abstract: Current guidelines recommend that “overweight” and “obese” individuals lose…

  • Surgeon General: Dance for Fun

    From a recent New York Times interview with the US Surgeon General, Dr Regina Benjamin: My thought is that people should be healthy and be fit at whatever size they are. […] I want exercise to be fun; don’t want it to be work. I don’t want it to be so routine that you’re bored…

  • A few links

    Marilyn Wann launched a new HAES site at  http://2011revolutions.blogspot.com/, focusing at replacing diet resolutions with a revolution. Jezebel: If You’re Fat-Phobic, You’re Also An Ignorant, Bigoted Idiot and Biggest Weight Stories of 2010. “I don’t eat a hamburger and large chips every day!” A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity…

  • Today on Twitter: Body Acceptance

    I don’t plan to write a lot of posts about things I say on Twitter, because I figure if you want to read it you’ll read it on Twitter. But I have a couple today I’d like to share to a wider audience. Today, Polimicks (of http://www.polimicks.com/ and http://polimicks.livejournal.com) decided to tweet about body acceptance, using a…

  • Things I Would Like To Not Care About

    I would like to not worry about: Whether a medical professional will consider my symptoms before making a diagnosis. Whether a job interviewer will not hire me because I’m fat. Whether the friend talking about her diet is doing so as a way of passive-aggressively commenting on my body size, eating habits, or perceived dieting…

  • Things I am thankful for right now

    1) Yummy food and friends / chosen family to enjoy it with. 2) A positive discussion of Health at Every Size. 3) A warm house. 4) Interview scheduled for next week. 5) Laughing with friends while playing board games ;)

  • Thankful Thursday

    [a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] The man of the house baked a chicken with some rosemary this evening.  He accompanied it with broccoli with cheese sauce,  green beans steamed with red potatoes, corn cooked with onions, cold sliced beets, and French bread.   As we were eating he said, “So did I make the Thankful Thursday this…

  • QOTD: Exercise

    From Linda Bacon, in an interview at Psych Central: [E]xercising regularly will have a much more dramatic improvement on the health of a fat person than if he or she were to lose weight. Thin people don’t have longer life spans solely based on their weight. Fitness levels play a much larger role in health…

  • Another HAES Quote

    This quote on Health At Every Size is from Michelle, aka The Fat Nutritionist.  Links within the quote were added by me. [D]ieting purports to make all people lose weight, permanently. Because 80-95% of the people who engage in it do not lose weight permanently, dieting fails as an intervention. It fails to achieve its…

  • Fat Acceptance Quote for Parents and Teachers

    If you exercise as “punishment” for weighing too much, how can you learn to enjoy being active? If you eat salads only as a way to change the body you hate, how will you enjoy the wonderful tastes of fresh vegetables? Besides, if hating one’s body effectively motivated change, do you really think there would…

  • Expectations (and Risks) of Weight Loss

    Lots of folks have been quoting the new paper in the International Journal of Obesity – Weight loss of 15% or more from maximum body weight is associated with increased risk of death from all causes among overweight men and among women regardless of maximum BMI. “Associate”, here, appears to mean “correlate”.   The 15% piqued…

  • Quote of the Day

    From an Alternet article focusing on Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size, Jamie Oliver’s new show, and Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign: [R]esearch shows that people of all sizes have similar diets, but it only manifests as weight gain in some of us. People today eat more calorie-dense, nutrient-poor convenience foods than Americans did in…

  • Freedom to Cook

    Dieting taught me to appreciate machinery-measured and packaged food with detailed nutritional labels.   Why? It made the math easier. I didn’t have to weigh things.  I didn’t have to dig out a ruler or measuring spoons.  Calories, carbs, protein — it’s all there, neatly printed, and totally uniform.  Sure, I had a few recipes…

  • Quote of the Day: Fat Acceptance Made Exercise Easier

    One of the things I like exploding people’s heads with is the fact that embracing FA made it *easier* for me to exercise. Before, exercise was always this horrible, dreary thing I “had” to do so that I’d be “thin,” and if I didn’t get “thin” I was failing, which made me not want to…

  • Oprah Online: Article on fat acceptance

    The Oprah magazine article I posted about earlier, by (mother) Robin Marantz Henig and (daughter) Jess Zimmerman, is online now.   So far the comments are good too, but there’s only two of them, so I’d be cautious anyway.

  • What would you put into a Fitness for Life class?

    Everyone’s talking about Lincoln college requiring students with a BMI of 30 or larger to take a “Fitness for Life” class. What I’m wondering is, what would you like to see in such a class?  Not what is usually in such classes, or what Lincoln is including — what would rock your socks to see?…

  • Kim Weighs In: Getting Active

    Kim Brittingham is a fat chick who isn’t afraid to get on YouTube.  I liked the humor in this short about exercise; I also think the shirt with the back pocket is cool. She’s also posted other videos, including 2 shorts on … shoes. I have Aravons myself, though not exactly the ones she features.…